Your mothers and grandmothers probably have jewelry with huge bright red stones in the treasured casket. Most likely, these are ordinary glass or artificially grown rubies. A real ruby of this color and size is not much cheaper than a diamond. What other signs can you use to distinguish a natural ruby from a fake one?
Instructions
Step 1
Take a stone and hold it in your hand for a while, holding it in your palms. If this is a real ruby, then it will remain cold, and synthetics or glass will quickly heat up. You can also put a stone on the eyelid to feel whether it is heating up or not.
Step 2
Place the ruby in a glass jar. If the ruby has played with all its faces, then the stone is real, if not, then it is fake. Place the stone in a glass of cow's milk, and if the milk, a little later, has acquired a pinkish tint, then the stone is real.
Step 3
Look at the stone at light or through a magnifying glass. The real one will play with all sides: at one angle it will look dark red, at another - turn pale (the phenomenon of dichroism). If there is a crack in the stone, then in the natural stone it will not shine and will have a zigzag shape. In theory, there should not be bubbles in a real stone, but if they do occur, then only round in shape, the same color as the whole ruby. Conversely, in imitations, transparent or open bubbles of various shapes are often found.
Step 4
Please note: the boards (crystal structure) of a real stone are always straight and linear, while in synthetics they are circular.
Step 5
Place the stone under a UVF lamp. If it turns orange, then it is definitely not a real ruby.
Step 6
Scratch the test stone over the surface of another, less hard gem. Traces left on the "dough victim" will indicate that this is a real ruby.
Step 7
Do not pass by inexpensive products with small and pale stones. It is likely that these are also real rubies, found in huge quantities on the territory of precious stones. Hence - and their low price, which makes any fake senseless.
Step 8
If you are still in doubt as to whether this is a real ruby, ask an expert for advice. Do not buy stones hand-held from unfamiliar people, in new salons and from jewelers without recommendations.
